Curling-iron heater



(No Model.)

H. J. MATTBS & G. BURKHARDT.

GURLING IRON HEATER.

No; 412,888. Patented 0013. 15, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT J. MATTES AND GUSTAVE BURKHARDT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CURLlNG-IRON HEATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 412,888, dated October 15, 1889. Application filed July 1, 1889. Serial No. 3l6,164- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HERBERT J. MATTES and GUSTAVE BURKHARDT, of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curling-Iron Heaters, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to heaters for heat ing curling-irons; and the object of our improvements is to provide a heater for holding such irons over a jet of gas or other like flame for heating the same quickly without smoking or blacking it with soot from the flame. This object we have attained byconstructing the heater as shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of our heater, showing also the application of a curling-iron thereto. Fig. 2 is a section showing the interior construction. Fig. 3 is an edge "iew showing the form of the casing for directing the air upon the flame immediately below the point where it strikes the iron to be heated.

The invention consists in the device constructed as shown and described, and pointed out in the claims.

The interior frame-work is best made of a piece of wire formed with a coil to in the center adapted to fit over a common gas-burner A, and having two arms a, bent upward and outward, and provided each with a ring a at the top for supporting a curling-iron A. The casing applied over the frame consists of a funnel-form tube B flattened at the top, so as to form a long narrow opening extending along the top between the arms a and just below the rings a Said oasin g is slightly higher at the center 0 than at the sides, and the upper edges along the sides of said opening are slightly bowed upward. The arms are run through the casing at c, for securing the same to the frame-work. At the bottom the casing is extended below the frame-work or the coil a thereof, and has an opening 0, adapted to fit over the gas-burner and furnish a bearing-point additional to that at a for steadying the heater on the burner. Holes 0 are also provided in the casing near the bottom for admitting a draft of air. The air thus admitted rises when heated, and in passing out of the long narrow opening at the top of the casing, where the gas is ignited or the flame issues from the casing, is burned with the gas, and produces a small blue and intensely hot flame, which strikes directly upon the underside of the iron supported in the rings a all along the part to be heated, so as to heat the same evenly and quickly. The character of the flame thus produced is such as not to smoke or blacken the iron by contact therewith.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As an article of manufacture, a heater consisting of a funnel-form casing flattened at the top and provided with rings a a for holding a curling-iron directly over the long narrow opening thus formed at the top of said casing, an opening at the bottom affording bearing-points, as at a c, for attaching the same to a gas-burner, and openings 0 for affording a draft of air, as specified.

2. The heater composed of the frame a a a and the casing B, being a funnel forin tube flattened at the top and having the opening at the bottom for attaching it to a gas-burner, and air-holes, substantially as shown and described.

HERBERT J. MATTES. GUSTAVE BURKHARDT.

Witnesses:

J NO. H. WHIPPLE, J No. D. HULLINGER, Jr. 

